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[nana59]

My back door is loaded with moths!  Isn't it December??  Blogging from RI.......

[JustJazzmom]

Is this them?

The winter moth:

https://ag.umass.edu/fact-sheets/winter-moth-identification-management

[fortune]

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@nana59 wrote:

My back door is loaded with moths!  Isn't it December??  Blogging from RI.......

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Inside or outside?

[nana59]

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@JustJazzmom wrote:

Is this them?

The winter moth:

https://ag.umass.edu/fact-sheets/winter-moth-identification-management

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Yup-that's the sucker!!  Just don't remember them visiting this time of year.....

[JustJazzmom]

It's that time of year. 'Love is in the air!' Read the website about how to control them. Inspect the bark of your trees and if there are any eggs, use horticultural oil to smother the eggs. Or you may be able to scrape them off if they are not too high up.

[Burnsite]

I have so many critters in and around my house, I could probably register as a wildlife refuge. 

Moths (check), lizards (check), roaches who park in the dishwasher because they get in from a nearby outside cupboard on the patio (check).  Rats inside one wall in the garage (check). Snakes (check).  

I guess the cats keep the rats outside the main house. I put the other critters outside.

I once saw a land crab the size of a dinner plate eating catfood in my kitchen.  I got a paper bag, put the crab in it,and placed him outside.  The sound of a 12" land crab inside a brown grocery bag . . . unforgettable.

I let him out in the back yard and he decided to live there, and did so for many years under a bush.  I named him Harvey.

[nana59]

Just read a little about them....seems they should be mating on the bark of trees......not my screen door!!!

[fortune]

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@nana59 wrote:

Just read a little about them....seems they should be mating on the bark of trees......not my screen door!!!

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Maybe they'll go through the screen and strain themselves!

[JustJazzmom]

Bwahaha-- I guess your screen has 'animal magnetism'!

They haven't crossed the Sound yet but are in the Mass/RI area.

[nana59]

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@JustJazzmom wrote:

Bwahaha-- I guess your screen has 'animal magnetism'!

They haven't crossed the Sound yet but are in the Mass/RI area.

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Maybe I could turn them into Christmas ornaments.....could put tiny little red bows on them.....